. History of the Michigan organizations at Chickamauga, Chattanooga and Missionary Ridge, 1863 [electronic resource]. e of seventy miles. The next, a very rough wagon road from Winchester, by Salem, to Larkins-ville, and an exceedingly rough road by the way of Mount Top, one branchleading thence to Bellefonte and the other to Stevenson. On these latter routes little or no forage was to be found except at theextremities of the lines, and they were also scarce of water. The one byAthens has both forage and water in abundance. It is evident from this description of the topography that to reach Ch
. History of the Michigan organizations at Chickamauga, Chattanooga and Missionary Ridge, 1863 [electronic resource]. e of seventy miles. The next, a very rough wagon road from Winchester, by Salem, to Larkins-ville, and an exceedingly rough road by the way of Mount Top, one branchleading thence to Bellefonte and the other to Stevenson. On these latter routes little or no forage was to be found except at theextremities of the lines, and they were also scarce of water. The one byAthens has both forage and water in abundance. It is evident from this description of the topography that to reach Chatta-nooga, or penetrate the country south of it on the railroad, by crossing theTennessee below Chattanooga, was a difficult task. It was necessary tocross the Cumberland Mountains with subsistence, ammunition, at least alimited supply of forage, and a bridge train; to cross Sand or Raccoon Moun-tains into Lookout Valley, then Lookout Mountain, and finally the lesserranges, Missionary Ridge, if we directly to Chattanooga; or MissionaryRidge, Pigeon Mountain, and Taylors Ridge, if we struck the railroad at. a Op. o ■ « £ A HISTORY OP MICHIGAN ORGANIZATIONS. 37 Dalton or south of it. The Valley of the Tennessee River, though severalmiles in breadth between the bases of the mountains, below Bridgeport, isnot a broad, alluvial farming country, but full of barren oak ridges, sparselysettled, and but a small part of it under cultivation. OPERATIONS OF THE ARMY UNTIL IT REACHED THE TENNESSEE RIVER. The first step was to repair the Nashville and Chattanooga Railroad tobring forward to Tullahoma, McMinnville, Decherd, and Winchester needfulforage and subsistence, which it was impossible to transport from Murfrees-boro to those points over the horrible roads which we encountered on ouradvance to Tullahoma. The next was to extend the repairs of the mainstem to Stevenson and Bridgeport, and the Tracy City branch, so that wecould place supplies in depot at those points, from whic
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